A lot of things worth noting here concerning Alex and the Azores. First off they get storms often in that part of the world. Rarely do they get direct hits from tropical weather but they have on occasion.

Hurricane Bonnie hit the Azores in 1992. Ironically that is the same list we have this year as Bonnie is the next name that will be used on the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane List. Oddly a similar sort of trek across the ocean though in September and October. Hurricane Bonnie was a long lived storm that got lost in the shuffle during the clean up after Hurricane Andrew.